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Article: Vitamins & Colon Cancer.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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Folate has done it again.
The same B-vitamin that seems to protect against birth defects and heart disease may also cut the risk of colon cancer, say researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. And an ordinary multivitamin with 400 micrograms of folate may have enough to do the trick.
Meir Stampfer and colleagues followed more than 88,000 healthy women in the Nurses' Health Study. Every two years starting in 1980, the nurses filled out questionnaires about the food and multivitamins they consumed.
By 1994, 442 of the women had been diagnosed with colon ...